Human Factors
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#1. Vision:
#2. Select the most correct answer:
#3. Runway perspectives say that an approach in to a longer runway than used to will:
#4. Visual illusions
#5. Aircraft accidents are generally caused by:
#6. During night flights when the rods of the eye provide a pilots night vision, it is important to:
#7. The bends is usually caused by:
#8. The effect you get when you look at a steady distant light at night and it starts to move around erratically is called:
#9. The day-to-day ability to perform well as a pilot and have the mental capacity to handle problems and emergencies which might arise when flying:
#10. In humans, the most powerful sense for maintaining orientation comes from:
#11. You are the pilot for a group of divers who are travelling away for a weekend. For the return trip you:
#12. You are flying as a co-pilot on a large twin engine aircraft. Whilst cruising at FL150 with a cabin altitude of 8,000 feet, your cabin crew give you a report of an elderly woman passenger who is suffering from nausea and having “difficulty breathing”. You:
#13. Motion sickness is caused by:
#14. In an incident that happened some years ago, a pilot returned to his “home” aerodrome and landed the aeroplane with the wheels up. At the time of his arrival the weather conditions were perfect and there were no other aircraft in the circuit. However, at this time there was a small brush fire close to the runway threshold. After the accident the pilot was adamant that he had completed his pre-landing checks and had seen three green lights. An engineering inspection of the undercarriage did not reveal any faults with the system. It would seem that the pilot did not complete his checks properly. The fact that he saw three undercarriage lights (when apparently there were no lights at all) is most likely due to
#15. Otolith organs are responsible for which of the following illusions?
#16. A pilot has not flown IFR for a few weeks but is current and has gone off on a flight, it’s an overcast day and the pilot soon enters IMC after takeoff, shortly after the pilot starts to feel some g-force in the seat of his pants and believe the aircraft is in a dive…..the pilot pulls back on the controls but this further increases the gforce felt – they should
#17. Regarding judgement and decision making on the flightdeck, an example of an “invulnerability” hazardous thought process is:
#18. Hyperventilation
#19. Which is correct?
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#20. A passenger returning from a holiday in the Bay of Islands starts complaining of itching and tingling skin, and joint pains. It is likely they are suffering from:
#21. Many airlines offer their passengers hard sweets (boiled lollies) at about top of descent. This practice:
#22. Chronic fatigue:
#23. In the simplified model of the way in which the human brain functions:
#24. On a flight in a light twin you start treatment on an elderly passenger who you suspect is suffering from hypoxia. As you begin treatment, the passenger complains of headaches and dizziness and pushes the oxygen mask away. Your passenger is probably showing symptoms of:
#25. Aircraft windscreens should be:
#26. In general, a heavy smoker:
#27. The time taken for a pilot who is maintaining a good lookout to avoid a potential collision is:
#28. The performance level of a person will:
#29. You are in a climb to 10,000 feet AMSL flying single pilot IFR and with 10 passengers on board. Passing 9,000 feet you experience a severe and sharp pain behind the “bridge” of your nose between your eyes. You remember feeling “a cold” coming on early that morning. The most likely cause for the pain is that you:
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#30. You are flying an old unpressurised twin from the West Coast of the South Island to Christchurch. You are forced by Terrain to climb to 8,000’AMSL where it is very cold and you turn on the aircraft’s heater. You start to feel light headed. You are most probably suffering from:
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